Monthly Summaries

ISC Moderation Relay Timings

Articles posted to s.s.g reach us by being emailed to a submissions address
from the news server at which they were posted. That submissions address (part
of the moderators.isc.org address family) has a significant number of mail
exchangers relaying it. If one of those mailservers were to fail to deliver
an article, the result would be a dropped message, which we heartily dislike.
So several times a day, we attempt to inject automatic test probes into each of
the ISC mailservers, and observe how long it takes for them to come back. Then we
generate some interesting plots of these ISC relay
turnaround times.

Aggregate Traffic

Simple rolling statistics of approvals and rejections. Times are relative to
GMT. And yes, there's a gap covering most of January 2007, when the stats
were broken. Curses upon architecture-dependent data formats.